World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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The Global News Partnership (formerly World Vision Report) produces this news magazine that captures the human stories behind global issues, taking listeners into the lives of ordinary people in the developing world.
The Global News Partnership (formerly World Vision Report) produces this news magazine that captures the human stories behind global issues, taking listeners into the lives of ordinary people in the developing world.
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The earthquake that ripped through Haiti has been a learning experience for students at the country’s only film school. Instead of shooting fictio...
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Congress may have passed a health care reform bill, but things aren’t likely to change much for street musicians in New Orleans who struggle to mak...
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 28:00
April marks the 16th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Folks there don’t talk about it much and it’s not taught in the schools.
This week ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rape, even honor killings.
This week, ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Voters in Sudan went to the polls this week for the first time in 24-years. But officials say there have been some “technical problems.”
We’ll fi...
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 28:00
More money is spent every year on baldness than on fighting malaria.
Baldness can be ugly, but malaria kills more than a million people a year.
It...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 28:00
As Arizona tightens its grip on the illegal immigration problem, four undocumented high school graduates have walked from Florida to Washington, D....
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 28:00
If you get sick in southern Sudan your chances of dieing escalate. Health care is a rare thing in that part of the world. This week, the World Visi...
- Added: May 07, 2010
- Length: 28:00
This week we head to Louisiana where fishermen are wondering whether they’ll survive the oil spill in the Gulf.
Also we go inside a classroom in Gh...
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- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 28:00
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The poor are on a tear in Thailand. They’ve staged violent anti-government protests in Bangkok and for a while barricaded themselves in an encampm...
- Added: May 21, 2010
- Length: 28:00
On this week’s World Vision Report…an encore presentation of a program first broadcast in December 2008. Terrorists left a trail of death and dest...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 28:00
A running gun battle between police and supporters of a drug lord in Jamaica has left more than 70-people dead and tourism in a nosedive. This wee...
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 28:00
When floods destroyed several mountain villages in the poorest part of Mexico, the government refused to rebuild. Instead, it built a brand new to...
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 28:00
President Obama went on TV last Tuesday promising gulf coast businesses they would be compensated for their losses caused by that big oil spill in ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2010
- Length: 28:00
The economy in Japan has improved slightly in recent months, but the country is still reeling from the global economic crisis. Many Japanese don’t...
- Added: Jun 25, 2010
- Length: 28:00
The war between rival drug cartels in Juarez, Mexico has left thousands dead and children scared. This week, the World Vision Report examines a bo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 28:00
The World Vision Report goes this week to Boston Harbor where every few weeks a cargo ship sails into port to be loaded with a hundred or so used c...
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 28:00
When people go to prison in China, their children are frequently left behind to fend for themselves. This week the World Vision Report takes you t...
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Since the genocide in 1984 when 800-thousand people were killed, Rwanda has made a remarkable recovery. President Paul Kagame has been praised far...
- Added: Jul 23, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Summer tourism with a twist is the theme this week on the World Vision Report.
In Nepal, we follow a street vendor who sells an exotic musical ins...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 28:00
